“Can’t be Tamed?”

I don’t even know how I came upon Miley Cyrus’s new album and “hit” music video Can’t Be Tamed, but things like this seem unavoidable these days. It’s a sad thing to see how much she is beginning to look like a younger Britney Spears….

See any resemblance? (I don’t think the fact that Miley has slightly less skin showing is really a positive factor).

I grew up watching her dad (Billy Ray Cyrus) on the Pax Christian TV network in the role of a God-fearing doctor in some backwoods town somewhere — an entertaining and wholesome show. So, it makes me wonder how he is justifying his daughter’s behavior right now. Has he just lost control to the “media” or the demands of our increasingly rotten American culture?

She looks like a normal girl in any other circumstance — she was cast to play a normal “wholesome” girl-next-door in the Hannah Montana TV show & movies…. so what’s next? Playboy?

On the same token, it blows my mind that celebrities (like Miley Cyrus) are so surrounded by the peons of the paparazzi and the icon-worshipping aristocrats of our society that they consider it a breakthrough and an occasion to congratulate themselves when they decide to “stopped caring” about what other people say about them. Seriously? All of it is made up anyway!

Miley said, “I am just a really positive person when it comes to career. Life is too short to be stressed about what other people say… You have to be free and that is what my record is about.”

Yes, apparently a seventeen-year-old girl has become so narcissistic that she actually thinks she has overcome some great struggle in life in decided that she doesn’t care about what the press says about her. Congratulations Miley, now that you’ve overcome the most difficult part of life, you can continue on into a successful career of stripping and preening for the masses!

Maybe it wouldn’t hurt those celebrities to take these things to heart every once in a while. Suppressing the pangs of a convicted conscience is a skill I wouldn’t be proud of mastering.